Les reveries, ou, Memoires sur l'art de la guerre de Maurice Comte de Saxe, duc de Courlande et de Semigalle ..

by: Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1696-1750; Bonneville, Zacharie de Pazzi de, approximately 1710-approximately 1780, editor; Sibelius, Gerrit, 1734-1785, engraver; Gosse, Pierre, 1718-1794, publisher

Publication date: 1758

Topics: Military art and science, Weapons

Publisher: A La Haye : Chez Pierre Gosse Junior ...

Collection: bplsctpbs; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Associates of the Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: French

Supplement aux reveries ou memoires sur l'art de la guerre (15 p.) bound in at end, like at the time of publication

Engraved title page vignette (arms) and headpieces; tailpieces; initials

The title page is in red and black ink

The portraits of soldiers are signed by Gerrit Sibelius, while the sequence of 40 plates at the end are signed "J.V.S."

BM (Compact ed.)

NUC pre-1956

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in mottled sheepskin and brown pulled paste paper over boards. The spine is panelled in gilt with a red leather label. All text block edges are sprinkled red. An illegible oval ink stamp is visible on the title page recto. Many of the plates are hand-colored, including the armorial device on the title page

Notes

No copyright page found. No table-of-contents pages found.

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Associated-names: Bonneville, Zacharie de Pazzi de, approximately 1710-approximately 1780, editor; Sibelius, Gerrit, 1734-1785, engraver; Gosse, Pierre, 1718-1794, publisher